Your blessing is not in a building.

It is not in a particular office, institution, desk, title, relationship, or city.

And it is not waiting for you in another person.

You are the temple.

You carry your blessing with you.

Yes, your children can bless you. Your parents can bless you. Your family can bless you. A stranger can cross your path and become an unexpected answer to a prayer.

People can be vessels. Places can become significant. Doors can open through institutions and relationships.

But never confuse the vessel with the Source.

What is meant for you does not become yours because you sat at a particular desk. It does not disappear because you left a particular building. It does not lose its power because a relationship ended or a season changed.

You carry something within you that travels with you.

The wisdom travels with you.

The gift travels with you.

The capacity travels with you.

The light travels with you.

The blessing travels with you.

Sometimes, we spend too much time protecting the place where we believe our blessing lives.

We become afraid to leave the job.

Afraid to outgrow the relationship.

Afraid to close the door.

Afraid that if we move, we will somehow leave our blessing behind.

But what if the blessing was never on the desk?

What if it was always in you?

You are the vessel that walked into that room. You are the one who brought your gifts, your ideas, your spirit, your resilience and your presence with you.

And when the season ends, you do not leave empty handed.

You leave carrying yourself.

And sometimes, that is the greatest blessing you could have been given.

You are not blessed because of where you are.

You are blessed, and therefore wherever you go, you carry something with you.

Protect it.

Nurture it.

Honour it.

You are the temple.

And the blessing travels with you.

Love,

Umi

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